Economic values of Begait cattle breeding-objective traits under low and medium input production systems in northern Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationHaramaya Universityen_US
cg.contributor.crpLivestocken_US
cg.contributor.donorGlobal Affairs Canadaen_US
cg.coverage.countryEthiopiaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ETen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierSolomon Gizaw: 0000-0002-0600-7188en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.urlhttp://www.lrrd.org/lrrd30/1/gebret30012.htmlen_US
cg.issn0121-3784en_US
cg.journalLivestock Research for Rural Developmenten_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL BREEDINGen_US
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL PRODUCTIONen_US
cg.subject.ilriCATTLEen_US
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen_US
dc.contributor.authorMezgebe, Gebretnsaeen_US
dc.contributor.authorGizaw, Solomonen_US
dc.contributor.authorUrge, Mengistuen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-14T11:17:18Zen_US
dc.date.available2018-01-14T11:17:18Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/90142en_US
dc.titleEconomic values of Begait cattle breeding-objective traits under low and medium input production systems in northern Ethiopiaen_US
dcterms.abstractThe study was conducted to estimate the economic values (EV) of Begait cattle breeding-objective traits and their effects on the returns to investment in breeding programs using bio-economic model. Production systems were described according to their level of input and sale age, namely, low input herd management (LIHM) and medium input herd management (MIHM) based on fixed herd size for genetic improvement of multiple traits. Results showed that all considered traits have positive economic values across production systems except pre weaning daily body weight gain (PrDG). However, production systems had significant influence on the magnitude of EV of traits. The MIHM was superior by 100 to 9% to the LIHM system. Regardless of the two production systems, calving interval (CI) had the highest EV followed by dressing percentage (DP) and mature weight (MWT). Although, the overall change of beef trait EV influenced the marginal profit through price and production variable changes at constant MY, the more sensitive change was observed with the changes of MY EV. Traits of milk yield had 1 to 12% increment on profit with 1 to10% improvement in its EV by rising milk price, reduced weaning and reduced culling rates. However, beef traits only made 5.1×10-7 to 2.3×10 -6% raises on profits with 18 to 50% increment in its EV by beef price increment and reduced age at first calving. The higher increments of profit parallel to the EV of milk production trait and mostly simultaneous improvements on CI have a great indication to give priorities on milk yield traits than beef traits in any Begait cattle improvement program. Therefore, improving milk production traits and fecundity traits simultaneously with their market outlet is better to increase the profitability of farmers and sustains the valuable breed in their habitat.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMezgebe, G., Gizaw, S. and Urge, M. 2018. Economic values of Begait cattle breeding-objective traits under low and medium input production systems in northern Ethiopia. Livestock Research for Rural Development 30: 12en_US
dcterms.issued2018-01-01en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseOtheren_US
dcterms.subjectcattleen_US
dcterms.subjectlivestocken_US
dcterms.subjectanimal breedingen_US
dcterms.subjectanimal productionen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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